Had a woman drop off a couple of bikes, while I wasn't home. The instructions were to move the wheels from her old bike to her "good" bike, because of brake squeal.

It turns out that she had acquired a prototype Roadmaster with tuned ride characteristics. Notice that it has the tried and true monobeam downtube and well-thought-out triangulation.

Notice the manipulated downtube profile, specifically designed for maximum power transfer.

It has an owner-removable toptube.

I wasn't able to score a ride on this mechanical wonder, as it has some kind of unseen-before cable system. My loss.

Unfortunately, the prototype's wheels were mismatched and had been thrashed by some unnamed pro rider. That led me to removing the highly specialized coating from the brake track of the "good" bike's wheels, using a DA sander.

In addditon, I swapped the pad spacers around, to get more leverage from the super-stiff sidepulls. Unfortunately, the brake pads are made of some kind of experimental, vinyl-type plastic. It has stupid amounts of grip, but, in a squeaky kind of way. We need an upgrade, here.

Only the best USA design theories and Chinese manufacturing techniques went into this jewel.

I salvaged the prototype's one-off, ultra-lightweight, 2.7mm bottle cage and transferred to the "good" bike.

I've managed to talk a few owners out of fixing theirs with sky high estimates. I've managed to send a few more across town to different shops. The one I like I'll send good stuff too since my turnaround's 9-ish days.

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